New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-08-03
Rose-Ma ne

afterward Inflated Vile de Paris
iound themselves on terra 1iirnla in New
York and amid scenes familiar or
novel. as suited their previous history.
Among the crowd, and yet apart, was
young woman, slender, fair and with
something disti,ague about her simple
iress. It was before the DAYS of the
barge Office, but the vexations OF GUS
tomhouse ordeals were sufficiently try
ng. and tho girl was very glad to- re-
,eive some assistance from a stranger
Who noticed her perpiexity. He said
1e had come to the dock simply to take
:harge of some artistic house furnish
ings sent in advance by his sister,. and
80 heecould easily pause little in exc
cutting his commission.
She did not know how to reach the
address she held in her hand aud he
tried to explain--and she tried to I'M
derstand.
The difficulty of comprehensive arose
not from innate stupidity on either side
but from lack of a common. language.
He spoke English well, but French in
differently; she could roll out melodi-
ous sentences in the Celtic tongue, but
her English was ..as she, is spoke.
However, the obstacles were all re-
moved, and Mile. Rose Marie de Aldine
was at last, with her French ideas of
propriety much shocked, but her fears
that she would have to stay at the
battery all day allayed, slowed away in
an uptown boarding house kept by a
French family.
The next morning Rose-Ma was in
another quandary. She was to go to
an instruction bureau on Union square,
and had not Madame Guillaume al
lowed her twelyeyear-old daughter to
show her the way it is doubtful wheth-
er she would have had sufficient conf
dence in her disgraced boarding-school
English to venture.
/ But No % was reached at last. Vic
| torine said s.Gu reUoiYn' and Mile. de
Aldine, with trembling steps, mounted
the stairs and found herself in the
| presence of Madame Schonberg, a
rather grand, immaculate persona ge,
who received her with the condescend-
ing nod of a monarch, waved her hand
to sofa, and continued an animated
conversation with a man in the window
seat. After a long time she babe him
goodbye and turned to catechise Rose
Marie: Did she have good accent ?''
chow long had she lived in Paris ~
mot born there" with elevated eye
brows)! could she teach music 81
German ?'' italian ?'' ssDrawing
and painting % .Sauveur method p
mo % III m-unfortunate' "How
much experience Pr s.None at all ?''
Il do not know how you can get a
situation now; but will tell you what
| you can choose from. Here is a situa-
ton in Portland. Oregon. The salary
is not large, only 5000, as you would be
goyerness for two children only-but,
oh /! the expenses of the journey? Two
OF three hundred dollars, or more; but
you can borrow, can you not?''
Poor Mile. de Aldine shook her head.
That would not do. sAh, there is some
thing else An excellent school in
Delaware, principal wishes a French
teacher, young and energetic, one who
would be sure to manage unruly schol-
ars. Some Of the outside duties are
mentioned, mere trifes, to be sure.
You would have to go out every morn
] ing with the omnibus which goes to
pick up the distant scholars. They say
that they would try to see that you had
something to eat before you started, as
the omnibus leaves before breakfast
time. That they would like to have
you give few lectures during the win
ter. to keep up interest, and then there
would be two dancing classes, and they
would like you just 10 superintend
the pupils-two dormitories, see that
they are always in time and in order,
and SO on. That would not be much,
and then there are five small girls be-
tween six and eight years old, with
whom you would be expected to stay
all the time out of school to amuse
them. No gentlemen allowed on the
premises bedtime; eight O'Clock for all.
It's really an uncommonly nice situa-
ton"
! Rose-Marie tried to express thanks
in her broken English. but her courage
failed before such prospect, and after
more proposals Of similar nature she
was forced to leave in disappointment.
Day after day she made her appear
ance at the bureau" but the season
was wrong, or something was wrong,
and she never succeeded in establish
ing herself. After some weeks she had
a delicate boy as a pupil, but he lived